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Six Counts of Sexual Assault against S.E. withdrawn by the Crown due to an unreasonable delay Charter application brought by Michael Bury before trial in the Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto. S.E. was charged with several serious sexual assault allegations involving a former intimate partner. The Crown was seeking a custodial sentence and various ancillary orders including registration with the sex offender registry and DNA samples if S.E. were found guilty. The matter had a lengthy history of delay with a significant portion of delay attributable to the Crown as well as significant institutional delay. Michael Bury spent considerable time assessing the delay and conducting recent caselaw research to determine the prospects of making a successful stay application argument before the scheduled trial date. The Crown reviewed the stay application before trial and agreed that S.E.’s right to a trial within a reasonable time had been violated and withdrew the charges for this reason.